Quotes About Language

To pander to those who have no stomach for straight language, and insist upon bland, non controversial sauces, is a waste of time. They cannot on deliberately will not understand what we are discussing here.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

Can something be created in language independently of the people who use the language? Can language become a self-replicating system or …' I'm drunk, I suddenly realise, so I shut up. But

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The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.

Since—and this is why it changed how I read the Bible—God chose to communicate in language, since language is always shaped by context, and since God chose to speak to us over time through many writers, God also chose to speak to us in a variety of ways and expressions. Furthermore, I believe that because the gospel story is so deep and wide, God needed a variety of expressions to give us a fuller picture of the Story.

Emotivism does give us something positive, a reminder that moral language is emotionally charged and can be used improperly to manipulate people under the guise of getting them to do the right thing. Unfortunately, because moral language is so emotionally charged, people often dismiss it today as too divisive or incapable of verification.

Emotivism maintains that the only statements capable of having meaning are those that are empirically verifiable, but this underlying principle is itself not empirically verifiable.

Second, emotivism is actually a theory of the use of moral language, not of its meaning.13 The emotivist has jumped from a theory of use to a theory of meaning without any justification for that leap.

Good reasons usually resolve moral disagreements, but for the emotivist, giving good reasons and using manipulation would essentially be the same thing.

take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

Language doesn't do it justice the body intact yet ready for rebirth The landscape of flowers and secrets left untold

All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only people can use language to make the highly complex categorizations of, say, animals or physical forces, or however many different kinds of quarks there are now, putting them in separate piles and naming the piles. It's how we proceed; it's how we communicate. Organization into categories is, at bottom, human.

The next person who tells me something like, "Squiggle-fuck the rightwise cock-swatter with a starboard jib," is going to get a knife to the throat.

I don't want to spend the rest of the day interrupting your questions, so I'm going to temporarily forget how to make words come out of my mouth.

Bug," Calo said, "Locke is like a brother to us, and our love for him has no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Rivaled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,' Ã¢â'¬Â added Galdo.

The word "BAE" which is popular in North American society is actually the Danish word for poop.

There are no genuinely blue foods. Foods that appear blue such as blueberries are often a shade of purple.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Q: What do you call a pissed-off German? A: Sauerkraut.

Q: What do you call a fat Chinaman? A: A chunk.

Q: What did the Chinese couple name their special-needs baby? A: Sum Ting Wong.